Flickering in reports

[Colin Law]

On 17 January 2017 at 22:04, Edward Doolittle
<edward.doolittle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you so much for trying this out, Greg. It looks like we might have to
> gather more data before the problem can be diagnosed sensibly. I'll see if
> I can trigger the problem with a multicolumn report.

Symptoms like flickering may possibly vary with graphics card/driver,
so only certain machines may show it. For all of you seeing the
problem what sort of graphics card have you got. I don't know how to
find that out on Windows but no doubt someone (or google) does.

Colin

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> On 16 January 2017 at 21:46, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (Win 7-64, 2.6.15)
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>> No flickering for whatever the default width is.  Also tried the width
>> Edward mentioned.  Since that didn't take up the full width of my screen, I
>> tried a larger width value to make it go across the entire screen.  Still
>> no flickering.
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>> Kind regards,
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>> Greg Feneis
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>>  <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
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>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:57 AM, <edward.doolittle at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > What width did you use for the graph?
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>> > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
>> > Windows 10
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>> > *From: *Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com>
>> > *Sent: *January 15, 2017 8:29 PM
>> > *To: *gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> > *Subject: *Re: Flickering in reports
>> >
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>> > Win 7-64, GnuCash 2.6.15 this time
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>> > I just tried Edward's recipe again on 2.6.15, and still no flickering.
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>> > Kind regards,
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>> > Greg Feneis
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>> > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
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>> > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > > Win 7-64, GnuCash 2.6.14
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>> > > I tried Edward's recipe and couldn't get the flickering    (#FOMO)
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>> > > I'll try upping to the latest and see if I can have flickering too
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>> > > Kind regards,
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>> > > Greg Feneis
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>> > >  <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
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>> > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Ingrid Friberg <ikf at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > >> I was definitely able to cause the problem your way. I think the
>> problem
>> >
>> > >> for me is that since my reports are multicolumn,  I can't edit the
>> > specific
>> >
>> > >> options to change the total width to something that works.
>> >
>> > >>
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>> > >> How does one file a bug report?
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>> > >> ---- Edward Doolittle wrote ----
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>> > >>
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>> > >> I noticed a similar problem with a wide graph in one of my reports. I
>> >
>> > >> worked around the problem by narrowing the graph. GnuCash 2.6.15 on
>> > Windows
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>> > >> 10.
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>> > >> The problem is easily reproducible for me by the following recipe:
>> >
>> > >> Reports -> Assets & Liabilities -> Net Worth Linechart
>> >
>> > >> then Options -> Display -> set Plot Width to 1265 -> Apply
>> >
>> > >> (the exact number may be dependent on screen width and/or window
>> width,
>> > I
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>> > >> suppose)
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>> > >> The flickering eventually stops, I've found, but I have no idea why.
>> Now
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>> > >> that I've tried it a few times in a row, the flickering stops more
>> > quickly.
>> >
>> > >> So I can suggest trying to close and reopen your reports a few times
>> and
>> >
>> > >> then waiting, as a work around for your multicolumn reports.
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>> > >> Shall we file a bug report?
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>> > >> On 14 January 2017 at 17:18, Ingrid Friberg <ikf at hotmail.com<mailto:
>> >
>> > >> ikf at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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>> > >> I've been using gnucash for a couple of years and this is my first
>> >
>> > >> problem.  The newest version of the software has damaged my
>> multicolumn
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>> > >> reports so that I cannot see them. They flicker endlessly.  I can't
>> > refresh
>> >
>> > >> or see any of the information about the reports either. Some of the
>> > single
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>> > >> reports do this as well, but it stops quickly.  Does anyone else have
>> > the
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>> > >> same problem and any ideas about how to fix it? Thanks.  Ingrid
>> >
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>> > >> Edward Doolittle
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